Real estate AGENT. He could hire 10,000 agents and the economy wouldn't go up a penny. Agents are just leeches on society that actually do nothing and take a 6% cut of a transaction. Building a house actually creates a job, adding agents just dilutes the same number of houses being sold across more people. Actually, adding these jobs would actually be bad for the tax base. Existing agents would make a lot less and the new agents would make very little - so less taxes will be collected as well and numerous people will squander their savings (my sister-in-law did this) trying to start-up, but fail because of other agents flooding a market when houses are barely being built.

How about you hire people based upon demand? You produce nothing, you offer a service. The service is based upon how well that person does their job and the demand for that service. Hiring people for the sake of hiring is stupid.

Plus the agents that you "hire" are 1099 contractors of which you offer no benefits and you take a cut of their commission. You pay them no salary so the risk isn't even close to someone that has a real business.

FarkedOver:skullkrusher: FarkedOver: skullkrusher: FarkedOver: This is the natural evolution of capitalism. Workers should get together and say we're not working unless we run EVERYTHING.

Fark off businessman.

any day now

Here's hoping for a better world :)

heh that's not a better world man. That's fantasyland

Sure it is.... UNTIL BAM! The red menace gits ya!

Like a thief in the night, no one knows when the Red Menace will appear. It'll sneak up behind you, whisper sweet nothings into your ear, telling you you are smart, that you are beautiful, that red is your color and you should really wear that more often.

"It's about a $50,000 investment that we're willing to make on these new agents,

As someone who's wife is a real estate agent, the owner of her agency doesn't pay her jack-shiat. So I am going to call shenanigans on this whole article and especially the bit I quoted above. The only way that MIGHT be true is if he's planning on moving to a new facility for their offices. But he's not paying agents anything. What a lying sack of fecal matter.

Emposter:jmf: $50,000 pays 100 workers? How will he find all those people if Romney cracks down on illegal immigration?

Not to mention, how is a business that hires 100 workers at a time considered "small"?

the category of "small business" depends on which industry it is in to determine the classification but generally it's 500 employees or less. I think he's referring to the cost of training them. They're real estate agents. He doesn't pay them directly (usually)

theknuckler_33:"It's about a $50,000 investment that we're willing to make on these new agents,

As someone who's wife is a real estate agent, the owner of her agency doesn't pay her jack-shiat. So I am going to call shenanigans on this whole article and especially the bit I quoted above. The only way that MIGHT be true is if he's planning on moving to a new facility for their offices. But he's not paying agents anything. What a lying sack of fecal matter.

theknuckler_33:"It's about a $50,000 investment that we're willing to make on these new agents,

As someone who's wife is a real estate agent, the owner of her agency doesn't pay her jack-shiat. So I am going to call shenanigans on this whole article and especially the bit I quoted above. The only way that MIGHT be true is if he's planning on moving to a new facility for their offices. But he's not paying agents anything. What a lying sack of fecal matter.

Someone who makes their hiring decisions of who's in the White House - rather than the needs of his business due to demand and the incremental value of additional employees - will always remain a "small" businessman.